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Whitney is über-bearish as shares rise around the world

17.11.09
Share prices on both sides of the Pond are trading at their best levels in more than a year, so stock market investors could be forgiven for thinking the worst of the global recession and banking meltdown is over ... more

Sir Win’s buying spree has City guessing about Lloyds

17.11.09
Does Lloyds Banking Group chairman Sir Win Bischoff know something the rest of us do not? ... more

George is too bookish

07.10.09
Doubts remain over George Osborne and his ability to step up to the job of Chancellor, should the Tories win the next election ... more

US economy clicks with the Google effect

02.10.09
It was Google’s 11th birthday this week and to celebrate, the ubiquitous search engine company misspelled its name as Googlle on its home page. The double “l” was supposed to look like the number eleven... more

Spyware woes for BlackBerry in UAE

30.07.09
Mobile phone users are accustomed to rogue emails and text messages, claiming to be from their phone company, but actually containing nasty software from a nefarious third party. What they’re not so used to is getting nasty stuff from the phone company itself.. ... more

City Spy: Time for Kingman to make a fortune

29.07.09
So Brownite Treasury civil servant John Kingman is quitting as £143,000-a-year chief executive of UK Financial Investments, which oversees the Government's stakes in Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds, Bradford & Bingley, etc... more

WATCH: No fly zone - Barack Obama kills insect on live TV

17.06.09
Video footage shows US President kill a fly which had repeatedly distracted him during a televised interview... more

Sir Allen Stanford foiled in bid to fly out of US

18.02.09
The Texan tycoon facing multi-billion-dollar fraud charges tried to leave the US by hiring a private jet... more

Boss says: That is snow excuse to miss work

05.02.09
TIMES are tough at Merton council. It’s ordered council employees who weren’t able to make it into work because of the snow, to account for the time from their annual leave.... more

Dow divi may be cut for first in 96 years

27.01.09
Economics: Dow Chemical could be forced to cut its dividend for the first time in 96 years... more

Dow divi may be cut for first in 96 years

27.01.09
Economics: Dow Chemical could be forced to cut its dividend for the first time in 96 years... more

Bad blood among top shopkeepers on the High St

28.11.08
Retailers slashing prices in an attempt to prise open the nation's wallets is not well-liked at all by ballsier rivals... more

Biffo’s bold move boggles the bankers

01.10.08
The scale of the Irish deal is utterly mind-boggling, totalling about €97,560 (£77,150) per head of the population... more

Hold your sobs as Lehman boss has to sell home

22.09.08
City Spy is sure most of the 5000 or so Lehman Brothers employees wondering where their next all-expenses-paid lunch is coming from, will spare a thought for ousted US chief executive Joe Gregory... more

Hold on to your hats, rough ride has just started

16.09.08
Chancellor Alistair Darling says we are in the biggest financial crisis in 60 years. So we obviously have much worse to come than yesterday's 4.5% retreat on the FTSE 100... more

Merrill may have to raise capital

05.08.08
Bank's chief executive says his comment about being "adequately capitalised" was misunderstood... more

Beeb pays out bonuses first – before bad

31.07.08
BBC bosses have come in for an official reprimand for arranging a paid sponsorship deal with Robinsons fruit juice... more

Watchdog smells rats - but can't catch them

01.07.08
In his classic 1940 book Where Are The Customers' Yachts?, Fred Schwed Jr takes on the follies of Wall Street in a way never bettered since. By his telling, Wall Street is a kindergarten full of incurable romantics, children who really believe all that guff they spout even as it is being proven spectacularly wrong... more

Nasdaq web deal for 'live' prices

03.06.08
New York's hi-tech Nasdaq stock exchange is to sell real-time share price data to popular small-investor websites, spurring hopes that the London Stock Exchange may soon follow suit.... more

Talk of raid by China lifts BHP

14.05.08
Shares in mining giant BHP Billiton rose 88p, or 4%, to a record 2108p in London on rumours that a Chinese buyer is building a stake... more

Bear Stearns proves bank CEOs don't have a clue about credit crunch crisis

27.03.08
Across Wall Street, CEOs don't know what their firms are doing... more

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